This agreement is the result of many agencies working together to help define agency requirements and Microsoft responding with an attractive deal for government, says Government Chief Technology Officer, Tim Occleshaw.

The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) expects that most government agencies will have moved off Microsoft XP by April 8 and says that of those which haven’t, most should have moved within three months.

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